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Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:50:51 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.16Comment on Lowcountry Rice in the National Museum of African American History and Culture by Diane Carrollhttp://requiemforrice.com/blog/2016/09/23/lowcountry-rice-in-the-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture/#comment-78
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:50:51 +0000http://requiemforrice.com/blog/?p=86#comment-78Congratulations, Dr. Edda, for the recognition of your invaluable work in such a significant way. A nation of museum visitors will now be able to be enlightened and equipped with the knowledge that you have shared so generously with us here in Pittsburgh, which includes your contribution to the students enrolled in the African American Literature course of the Pittsburgh Public Schools!
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Sat, 24 Sep 2016 13:19:14 +0000http://requiemforrice.com/blog/?p=86#comment-77Congratulations on making such a contribution to the new museum! We will be going to see it in December; already reserved our tickets.
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Sat, 24 Sep 2016 13:17:27 +0000http://requiemforrice.com/blog/?p=78#comment-76I am so excited to read this blog and am learning so much from your journey. This video is absolutely amazing. As a scholar of embodiment, I am most interested in the woman carrying the bucket of water on her head in 1941. These are practices that we no longer see and I am interested in why. My best guess is people chose intentionally to abandon certain forms of “black embodiment” for hopes that they would be accepted by white society (respectability politics). It is a fascinating video to watch…
]]>Comment on My Beginning: Part 4 by Juan Carlos Acostahttp://requiemforrice.com/blog/2016/06/06/my-beginning-part-4/#comment-54
Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:52:12 +0000http://requiemforrice.com/blog/?p=27#comment-54I vividly remember this class, Edda. It was by far one of my most impactful classes at Carnegie Mellon. It was uncomfortable and heartbreaking to be exposed to Gonzales’s poisonous hate, but necessary to understand our county’s history. I cannot imagine how difficult it was to make the connection to your family. History seems so distant until you realize it isn’t — just one of many takeaways from that class.

I look forward to continuing to follow your journey!

]]>Comment on My Beginning: Part 4 by Dr. Edda L. Fields-Blackhttp://requiemforrice.com/blog/2016/06/06/my-beginning-part-4/#comment-48
Mon, 01 Aug 2016 16:28:47 +0000http://requiemforrice.com/blog/?p=27#comment-48Thank you truly for your support for “Requiem for Rice,” for helping us to tell our shared history, and honor our dead.
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Wed, 08 Jun 2016 22:24:18 +0000http://requiemforrice.com/blog/?p=27#comment-20I have tears in my eyes and goosebumps all over from reading your blog about finding the history of your ancestors on the Combahee River rice plantations. As one living in the Lowcountry, it has always been apparent that the enslaved African-Americans did all the work down here and the whites made a huge profit from their enslaved work, done in the most difficult of conditions, heat, disease, alligators, poisonous snakes and, of course, no freedom to say “NO”. And then the whites believed that they were entitled to their wealth and were somehow superior, although they did no work at all! When you look at the beauty of Old Sheldon Church, a pre-civil War church, now in haunting ruins, built by the enslaved African Americans, you know a bit of their skill and artistic ability. The work of cutting the timber, clearing the swamps for rice fields, digging the canals, and building the dikes for rice to grow has been compared to the work of building the pyramids in Egypt.
Your work is helping to set this sorry, distorted history straight. Thank you. Jessica
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Tue, 31 May 2016 19:31:10 +0000http://requiemforrice.com/blog/?p=23#comment-10My, it is a small world. And, Green Pond is the smallest of worlds! I would love to know more about your corner of our common ancestral home.
]]>Comment on My Beginning: Part 2 by Margaret Gethers Scotthttp://requiemforrice.com/blog/2016/05/23/my-beginning-part-2/#comment-7
Tue, 24 May 2016 17:35:41 +0000http://requiemforrice.com/blog/?p=23#comment-7I am a personal historian who is writing a book on rice and reconstructing my own family’s relationship to rice in Colleton County. I grew up just 4 miles from Green Pond and am mesmerized by this story. More, more!
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Tue, 17 May 2016 07:48:17 +0000http://requiemforrice.com/blog/?p=17#comment-5Dr. Fields-Black,
Thank you for the Requiem or Rice blog and for this introductory post. Very much looking forward to reading how you handled the “Gonzales thing” with your students.
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Mon, 16 May 2016 16:32:01 +0000http://requiemforrice.com/blog/?p=17#comment-4Edda, as one of your former students who read these texts, I remember this moment in our class vividly. I am thrilled I have a way to stay connected to this course even though I’ve graduated and am currently on a different continent! The texts in this class were by far the most difficult to read in any class I took.

I am currently in Brazil as an English Teaching Assistant through Fulbright. One of my students recently asked me about the “African American” accent in a class I did about accents in the US. I was dumbfounded and felt uncomfortable because I was A.) Ill-equipped and educated to answer this question and B.) remembered the Transnational History class where I learned that deeply racist perspectives have tried to characterize African American accents for centuries. If you have any any suggestions I could read (or anyone in here!) I’m all ears.